World Book Night

Spreading the love of reading in 20 cities across the country, Powell’s will serve as one of the distribution points for World Book Night, which hands out specially chosen titles each year. Sharing in the literary love will be local authors Cheryl Strayed, Matthew Dickman, Amanda Coplin, Paul Collins and Chelsea Cain, who will each speak about a book that influenced them as a reader and writer.

Ecologically themed art tends to be dull and sanctimonious, but not so in the hands of Wesley Younie. His idylls of environmental paradise lost abound with equal parts whimsy and intelligence. In the ...

Megan Kruse weaves together a three-pronged narrative between Amy, a woman who leaves her Texas home at 19 with a man she barely knows, and her two children, who are caught in the abusive relationship ...